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Hannibal Fashion Meta Pt. 5

This is my second post about Will’s clothes here’s the first one [ here ].

You can find my other Hannibal clothing posts (and cool ones not written by me) by looking in this tag [ here ].

Despite knowing a lot about the logistics of formal menswear, Will Graham’s style is one I find a lot easier to get into. He’s not like Hannibal where he follows specific fashion rules and has tons of costume changes and flair. Some of us are closeted and need to tone it down. Some of us are autistic and enjoy wearing things within our comfort zone. By us, I mean Will Graham and maybe me.

He wears a lot of easily found brands like Van Huesen, J. Crew, and Gap. Very typical for an American who needs semi-formal or formal work clothes. Dad brands. FBI salary is nice, Will has money, he just thinks spending more than $60 on a button up makes you an idiot. He’s correct in case you were wondering. He canonically reads Marx, what do you expect.

He isn’t a sloppy dresser at anytime in the show. Any time you look at him and don’t like what he’s wearing, it’s probably because he’s not rolling up his sleeves. It makes a difference. That difference is the whole “season two glow up.”

Season 2 Will’s glow-up was entirely reliant on him figuring out how to style his hair and buying 1 (one) nice sweater, 1 (one) new sportcoat, and and a 1 (one) very good overcoat, which by the way is a Hugo Boss wool blend overcoat that ran him $700.

Will’s new sweater he got in S2 is a Club Monaco 100% wool sweater that was probably around $200. He wears this sweater when he told Hannibal that it was a dick move to not let him murder the guy who voices Mickey Mouse (look it up). He also wears this when he tells Hannibal is was dick move to murder their surrogate daughter.

The one he wears when he makes Clark Ingram shit his pants and cry is a J Crew Wallance & Barnes. He already had this season one and he wears it when he tries to shoot Hannibal. This has nothing to do with fashion but he’s also teacupping the gun in both scenes which is probably why he’s such a bad shot. Maybe they wouldn’t be “attempted” murders if you actually took a gun safety class, Will.

The sweater he wears under his coat in Su-zakana is the same beige H&M sweater he wears in S1E5 Coquilles. It’s a nice sweater. The man clearly owns a washing machine unlike Hannibal who probably just gets rid of his clothes once he wears then once. (Wash your sweaters on a cold setting and let them air dry and they will stay softer longer and won’t shrink as bad).

The blazer is funny because he never wears the one from season one and instead wears a new herringbone John Varvatos one. Which he wears four different times, all paired with a denim shirt. He knows what he looks good in.

Will loves what he wears. His style is very locked down and what he’s wearing is never going to shock anyone’s pants off. That green military jacket of his? That you saw what I wrote and said ‘Didn’t he wear that in that in the pilot? No actually Will Graham has two green jackets that look almost exactly the same. The first one is a lighter field jacket for fall, after episode 7, he starts exclusively wearing his winter American Eagle jacket.

You know what’s funnier than having two green jackets that you thought were one green jacket? Having four blue jackets that look like almost the same.

I don’t know what this one is really about other than I’m sick of people saying Will can’t dress or doesn’t have nice clothes. I mean if anything it’s pretty basic and you can literally put together his wardrobe by compiling pics i found from searching “man stock photos.”

He just dresses exactly how you’d expect an 30/40 something professor to dress. He dresses like a dad or like a depressed high school biology teacher.

He’s pretty cute thought ngl. Me and Hannibal can agree on that at least.

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Hannibal Fashion Meta Pt. 4

Now with sexy annotations.

In this installment we’re back to our favorite party vampire, my sweet Hannibal, who is a whole ass meal and always ready to please a crowd. So we’re going to be talking about his Event Looks.

Ya know, these are becoming less like metas and more like me sitting with you on your couch and pausing and pointing at the screen while I dump all this on you. But what matters most is my own happiness so here we are.

Let’s start in order with one of my favorite episodes, 1x07 Sorbet. Where we see Hannibal is a gorgeous double breasted midnight blue Brunello Cucinelli tux. It’s not bespoke, but honey if this is cashmere than this is probably $9000. If it’s wool than it’s closer to $5000 (which is what I estimate he pays for a lot of his bespoke suits).

Hannibal really isn’t the type of person to wear black, I’m pretty sure we never see him in a solid black suit. Black suits are very very formal and unless you’re at a black tie event or a funeral, a black suit is usually overkill. We know he likes to stand out. Blue is a very socially acceptable way to have some flair at a black tie event. It’s very main character of him. He’s also wearing french square cuffs on the shirt (the reason they look almost tear drop shaped around his wrists) which is why he’s wearing cuff links (you need french cuffs for cufflinks).

Hannibal doesn’t seem to wear cuff links very often. Only with tuxedos. On this evening, he pairs this with a $200 a blue silk Burberry bow tie.

Hugh Dancy used to model for Burberry and I lost an hour of work on this due to that little morsel of information.

The next even we see Hannibal at is his own dinner party later that episode. This shit is lux, baby.

This blazer is a dark dark green velvet Canali dinner jacket that I’m estimating to be around two to three thousand dollars. And hey listen. I tried so hard to edit these pics so you could see the green, but it’s the type of material in color where you’d really only see it in person. Canali is a luxury Italian brand that has a shop in Washington DC,which is probably the one Hannibal would go to in canon. There’s also a shop in Milano, Italy so Hannibal could’ve been a fan of this brand for a long time. Under the jacket we have a $600 Gucci button up. A paisley tie, not surprising with it being a staple to Hannibal’s taste, and a three-peak folded pocket square to finish off the look. King of pocket square folds. I love you.

With only one party happening in season two, Futamono is next. Now, I personally love this look but anytime people step up their formal wear with color, I go nuts.

This is a maroon velvet dinner jacket with silk lining and trim. The make is Etro, a very high end Italian fashion house that specializes in bold prints. It’s a gorgeous $1500 jacket, but I want to talk about the cravat. Cravats felt out of a fashion a long time ago (they were originally a military thing way back before aristocracy got a hold of it) and most people could NOT pull them off today. BUT that is only because people don’t modernize the look. People wear them too high on the neck and makes your whole outfit look outdated. But keeping it low to the open collar or using it to frame an open collar makes it look a million times better. This is just another example of Hannibal being a person who wears what looks good on him and not wearing things that follow certain rules. He can pull anything off it he puts his mind to it. If we wore crocs to the opera, everyone would be trying to do it the next day. He’s a trend setter and an icon.

Jumping to season 3, we have another black tie event. Everyone in the background wearing black and our man comes through with a gorgeous burgundy two-peice tuxedo. This is a unique bespoke peice by toronto based Italian master tailor, Nino Cioppa. Nino is the primary tailor for season 3 and he did a fabulous job, the talent JUMPED out. Molto bello.

The silk on the lapels are patterned and the same fabric is used to do an accent strip on the sides of the legs. Silk lapels are one trusty way you can tell between a suit and a tuxedo. Lovely lovely lovely. Not a plain tie either. It’s maroon silk with an embroidered square pattern. He’s also wearing french cuffs with mother of pearl Burberry cufflinks.

Another amazing suit in Antipasto is this baby, a beautiful chalkstripe emerald green three-piece suit. By FAR, one of my favorite outfits that he wears. Like the tux above, this is another bespoke original from Mr. Nino Cioppa.

The silk blue bowtie brings yet another pop of color. He does color matching and pattern matching very often and does it well. There’s a general rule of two that people follow where they will only wear two patterns at most having one be understated (the chalkstripe and stripes on the shirt in this case) and one being more attention drawing (the bowtie). Hannibal ignores this rule a lot and still looks amazing but this is a good example of the rule in action.

The biggest thing I want people to get out of these is that regular fancy people don’t dress like this. Hannibal Lecter is another plane of fashion. He’s avant-garde and ahead of his time. He is always wearing something fresh and showstopping. This person had to be THE TALK of the baltimore upper class. “What’s Dr. Lecter wearing?” “Who is your tailor?” “Oh my goodness, he’s stunning.” Nobody else is doing it like him and doing it so well. He dresses for the Met Gala everytime he pulls up to ANY function. Why should he be concerned out rules? Why should he be self-conscious or worried what other people think? Take his self confidence and apply it to your style. Wear that peice of clothing you bought but shoved back in your closet because you can’t bring yourself to wear it out. Hannibal will never hold back when he’s serving looks and neither should you.

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Hannibal Fashion Meta Pt. 3

Like our boy Will, this one took a while to come out and just like him, I’m valid.

So Will’s turn. I don’t what to talk as much about his clothes per say (yet), but more what he does with them. So I’m covering his person suit. Part 4 is going to melt better with the series and be closer to it’s usual comedic tone.

This one isn’t funny like the other ones because I made it to specifically stab people in the chest. I also got a brain so I put this one under a read more so the people who follow us won’t want to murder us.

Apéritif’s costuming gave us everything we need to know about Hannibal and it gave us everything we need to know about Will and I use a few episodes of season 3 to really twist the knife about it.

Keep reading

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Hannibal Fashion Meta Pt. 2

This one is going to be nicer than [ part one ] because he actually looks good like he normally does and this is one of my favorite suits so I will be very generous with praise. 

Hannibal’s sense of style is very easy boiled down once you realize that Hannibal is both the serial killer and the hot girl in this horror movie. Captain Hook by Megan thee Stallion gives you everything you need to know. He enjoys clothing like how he enjoys food and art. Why settle for things in life when you don’t have to? Better Ingredients. Better suits. Hannibal Lecter.

Most of the high end men’s wear on the show was made by Toronto clothing maker Antonio Valente. A suit maker that doesn’t seem to be in business anymore so dressing exactly like him is official impossible.

This one is a bespoke light blue windowpane suit with a single-breasted waistcoat that makes him look like a great white shark. All of these suits, like the suffering of Will Graham are specifically handmade for Hannibal. There’s pick stitching on the lapels of the suit and the waistcoat to show off that it’s hand stitched.  

He wears with with a yellow checkered cotton shirt, also Antonia Valente. In all of his shirts he has his initials sewn onto either two small tags or directly into the collar in case he every goes full Jason Voorhees and loses them at summer camp.

This is a cutaway collar, which is a very bold spread collar. You need soread collars for large tie knots. Hannibal almost always ties his ties in either a double windsor or a triple windsor knot, in this case a lovely champagne ribbed silk tie. Thi knot is huge. I could use that knot as a pillow.  He’s doing this attention and because most peoole couldn’t pull it off.

Ian Fleming wrote that Bond never trusted any man who wore a windsor knot because it was vain and meant you spent a lot of time in the mirror. I have no idea what he’s talking about. I trust this man with my life.

His pocket square is in a cute puff fold and since he isn’t your prom date he’s not going to match the pocket square to the tie. They’re put in an outfit for flair and contrast so Hannibal gets another excuse to be flashy. Total pattern count for this suit is four.

Other quick things about the cut is the con rollino or “roped” shoulders which is why they got the little puff. Paired with the front darts (the verticle stitching next to his pockets), and the side vents, this is a absolutely a Neapolitan style suit. Very first good look at him and we already know his heart belongs to Italy.

The very last thing I want to talk about which is my favorite little detail is the top pocket on his right hip.

This is a ticket pocket! The cargo pants of the suit world! Originally made for the on the go man during the industrial revolution to hold money or a pocket watch. When trains became really the hip knew thing, this pocket was popularized so your train ticket could be easily accessed to avoid doing the full body pat down that I do every time I’m at the checkout. . Modern use is to be a stylish fashion statement but I’m sure an on-the-go opera loving serial killer like Hannibal finds it very useful which is why they’re a frequent element to his suits.

Showing this suit before his next two outfits was important because this suit is flashy and demonstrates that Hannibal Lecter is a very fashionable man. We’re supposed to be impressed and then understand that he’s dressing down on purpose.

Hannibal dresses like he does 1) to be sexy and 2) because his is Italian. That’s going to be the description for every subsequent fashion meta I’ll write about him.

Over writing this I’ve had the misfortune of falling in love with him so I have to remember he’s an evolutionary psychologist and it’ll fade away.

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Hannibal Fashion Meta Pt. 1

I’m just gonna cover Hannibal’s two hetero cosplays from S1 E1 Apéritif and some suit basics that are gonna be a reoccuring.

This outfit is bad. Yes, he’s very pretty still but this is a bad look.

Hannibal knows how to wear a monochromatic outfit, he does it all the time. Right now he looks like a homophobic paper bag or like a republican that’s going to sell me a house in Arizona. He looks like he’s wearing a bad version of what Franklyn is wearing in this episode, which was probably his inspiration for these two outfits.

It’s very pedestrian, very American, and really an outfit that I think anybody who has the money could slap this on and it would be fine. Looking regular is the antithesis to his normal style. He likes attention. If he didn’t, he’d dress like this all the time. I’d avoid eye contact with him too, Will.

Thanks to the prop auction, I foumd out that the whole outfit is off the rack, which is unimaginable for Hannibal.

This is a suede Ralph Lauren sport coat running around $1300 USD. It’s nice. Pick stiching (the straight running stich) up the lapels are a nice detail and are usually done to show the garment was handmade. Standard Two-button. If Hannibal isn’t wearing a double breated jacket, his jacket is going to have two buttons. That’s due to it being a feature of Italian suits which Hannibal loves to wear. This one probably has them because of the rack suits tend to have two since it fits nicer kn a wider range of bodies than three buttons would. You leave the last button undone for movement and you unbutton both when you sit down to not crease the fabric.

The reason this particular jacket looks bad when you rewatch the show is because we’re used to seeing Hannibal in bespoke suits that show off his figure and this is an off the rack jacket. Almost everything he wears is bespoke. He goes to a talior, picks the fabric, tells them what he wants and they make him a brand new suit that nobody else on earth owns.

The 100% cashmere v-neck sweater is also Ralph Lauren running him around $400 USD. Again, it’s nice, but this outfit has purposefully bad color matching to make him look plain jane and nerdy.

The italian wool pants are Zenella running $350. Nice quality. Probably the only pants you’ll see him wearing that has belt loops. I’ll venmo $20 to the first person who can show me a picture wearing a belt. (I promise). All of his pants are bespoke or tailored to fit his waist. Which you need if you wear 3 piece suits and you don’t want to mess up how your waistcoat is laying.

So we’re at $2000 for this one. He probably donated the whole ensamble to a thrift store because he’s canonically eco-friendly and wouldn’t just throw it away but he’s also canonically a bad bitch and wouldn’t be caught dead wearing this again.

NEXT

This outfit is actually pretty good, for anybody who isn’t Hannibal Lecter fashion icon. Afterall, he had breakfast with his crush and lives to ruin so he let his own fashion slip in a tad.

The jacket is bespoke and a glimps at what Hannibal actually wears in his day to day. We can tell that from the italian cut, the notched lapels that you can find on most of his jackets, and the cuffs.

These are surgeon cuffs, which Hannibal loves. Developed for on the go battlefield surgeons, these buttons woukd be undone, allowing them to roll up their sleeves to avoid getting them covered in blood. Back in 19th century London most people who could afford getting swanked out in bespoke suits were surgeons like Hannibal so they became a status symbol. (The Ralph Laurent jacket above also had surgeon cuffs.)

The buttons themselves and how they lay are also interesting. They look like horn buttons (cow or buffalo horn usually) which are probably authentic because he would never get a bespoke suit and get plastic buttons on them. The overlapping style of how they lay are called “kissing buttons” which is very common for italian suits, done to show that they were hand stictched. Very cute.

I’m assuming that Hannibal had this made at his regular tailor so he already owned it. It takes a while to make a jacket from scratch. It’s a nice jacket and I’m not mad at it.

The merino wool sweater is John Smedley, a british brand for luxury knitwear, and costs $485. It looks almost exactly like his other one but this one is higher quality and fits better. The neckline is deep because it’s supposed to be worn with a tie. Again, probably something he grabbed out of his own closet. Very lovely.

The pants are again, italian wool, Zenella. $350, just like before. Not that interesting if you’re normally in bespoke pants that are part of a matching set.

This outfit was like the last one, deliberately chosen to make him look plain and regular and nobody of consequence.

Hannibal never dresses like this again because this was him playing the part of a unassuming psychiatrist who didn’t want to be noticed. He wanted to sit and observe what the FBI does when they go after a serial killer without people looking at him. Not even Will paid very close attention to him.

Hannibal also just doesn’t do semi-formal. He doesn’t like dressing like this. Why would he dress like this when he can wear whatever he wants and he’s not straight so he’ll probably never walk into another Macy’s again.

[ Part Two ]

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Stabbing is ROMANTIC and INTIMATE now stop fucking running goddamn!!

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Some of my old landscape art ~

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Tips for writing those gala scenes, from someone who goes to them occasionally:

Generally you unbutton and re-button a suit coat when you sit down and stand up.

You’re supposed to hold wine or champagne glasses by the stem to avoid warming up the liquid inside. A character out of their depth might hold the glass around the sides instead.

When rich/important people forget your name and they’re drunk, they usually just tell you that they don’t remember or completely skip over any opportunity to use your name so they don’t look silly.

A good way to indicate you don’t want to shake someone’s hand at an event is to hold a drink in your right hand (and if you’re a woman, a purse in the other so you definitely can’t shift the glass to another hand and then shake)

Americans who still kiss cheeks as a welcome generally don’t press lips to cheeks, it’s more of a touch of cheek to cheek or even a hover (these days, mostly to avoid smudging a woman’s makeup)

The distinctions between dress codes (black tie, cocktail, etc) are very intricate but obvious to those who know how to look. If you wear a short skirt to a black tie event for example, people would clock that instantly even if the dress itself was very formal. Same thing goes for certain articles of men’s clothing.

Open bars / cash bars at events usually carry limited options. They’re meant to serve lots of people very quickly, so nobody is getting a cosmo or a Manhattan etc.

Members of the press generally aren’t allowed to freely circulate at nicer galas/events without a very good reason. When they do, they need to identify themselves before talking with someone.

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There are some side effects to a battle frenzy

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There’s always one show off in the group.

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Yesterday our DM told me that my warlock can keep his skeleton minions in his bag of holding 💀

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lineart can eat my ass, paintover team forever

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what a beautiful mess 2 make

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The Mad Knight and his Devil

(inspired by this photo!)

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Little Gummygoo version 🐊💚💛

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RUIN IS DONE AND YOU CAN READ IT ALL RIGHT NOW!!

In a monastery where revealing one's face is an affront to the god housed inside its very chambers, what happens when one young man accidentally sees the face of another?

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